Stuff about, you know, puzzles

Monthly Archives: September 2013

The Famine Game ran this past weekend and by all accounts was one of the best puzzle hunts ever, if not THE best. See below for reactions from the community. A few of the past hunts, such as World Henchmen Orginization and WarTron have been recast, i.e. done again in a different location, months later. It makes me […]

(Man, it's been a long time since I've written one of these.) The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour was recommended to me by my daughter's karate compadre, who describes it as her favorite book series. So I took the chance of reading a book recommended by a 9 year-old. I'm glad I did. […]

Last month, I participated in what thus far has been the only walking puzzle hunt I've been able to participate in this year (the announcement of a new Ghost Patrol "short format" game and Dr. Bob's third rerun of Elevate Tutoring Puzzle Hunt 2 threaten to put an end to this trend): The Great Petaluma Treasure Hunt. […]

Escape from the Bank is the newest real life escape game from SCRAP. I'm kind of excited about this. It may be a coincidence, but at the end of Escape from the Mysterious Room, they asked for feedback and suggestions for new escape games and I suggested escaping from a bank vault. Maybe they took my suggestion […]